To Keep or Not to Keep: Deaccessioning Artifacts
May 23rd, 2008 by fashionpodcast
When an artifact is donated to a museum it is accessioned into the collection, a process by which the artifact is given a unique number and any information about it is documented in museum records. While at the time of accessioning, each item is a valuable addition to the museum’s collection, we often need to reassess our collection to weed out items that are no longer the best representations of their period or that require too much care to stabilize and preserve for the future. Here, Margaret Ordonez and Sharon Davis discuss the need for and challenges of removing artifacts from a collection.
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